[linux-dvb] Re: Problems with WinTV NOVA-CI

[Andrew de Quincey <adq_dvb@lidskialf.net>]

On Monday 13 Dec 2004 12:57, Werner Hauger wrote:
> > I have looked through the mailing list archives from this year, and
> > found 2 or 3 posts about the same problem, however there was no
> > resolution posted. Is anybody here using a standalone DVB-S TT budget
> > card with the dvb-kernel drivers and a 2.4 kernel successfully ? (Btw.
> > I get the same behaviour with the 2.6.7 kernel included drivers under
> > Knoppix).
>
> Judging from the lack of responses, everybody that has a budget card
> (and more specifically the exact one I have) is using it in
> conjunction with a FF one. Isn't that maybe the reason only I now have
> this problem i.e. the driver/firmware of the FF card does something to
> make the budget card work, which is lacking in my case.

The problem is (I think) none of the developers have seen the issue you 
describe.

I have *many* TT Nova-S (stv0299) cards working 24 hours a day (they're the 
same physical card as the TT Nova-CI, minus the CI components). The machines 
have never had windows on them. I have never seen this issue. I have used the 
drivers under both 2.4 and 2.6. I have never used a FF card.

I also never saw this behaviour when I was developing the budget_ci driver for 
the TT Nova-S-CI. 

Is it possible it is a motherboard issue - ACPI or the like?